Fernandez, Lucas

FERNANDEZ, LUCAS, Spanish dramatist, was born at Salamanca about the middle of the 15th century. Nothing is known of his life, and he is
represented by a single volume of plays, Farsas y églogas al modo y estilo pastoril (1514). In his secular pieces - a comedia and two
farsas - he introduces few personages, employs the simplest possible action, and burlesques the language of the uneducated class; the secular and devout
elements are skilfully intermingled in his two Farsas del nascimiento de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo. But the best of his dramatic essays is the Auto de
la Pasión, a devout play intended to be given on Maundy Thursday. It is written in the manner of Encina, with less spontaneity, but with a sombre force to
which Encina scarcely attained.